Shoaib Akhtar files appeal against ban

Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has filed an appeal with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to review the two-year ban imposed on him by an anti-doping tribunal on Nov 1.// Shoaib handed over the appeal to PCB anti-doping officer Dr Sohail Saleem, the Dawn newspaper Wednesday quoted the PCB spokesper...

Spinal cord injury research hampered by animal models, says new study

...lternatives. Unfortunately, spinal cord research, a relatively newer endeavor, is not yet learning from the failure of other fields of inquiry. As Dr. akhtar warns, We need to develop new, more effective research techniques. Although scientists have just begun to develop alternatives to the use of animal...

Anti-doping Rules Must Avoid Unsatisfactory Decisions: WADA

...an appeal with the CAS against a decision of the PCB Appeals Committee that akhtar and Asif did not commit a doping offence under PCB Regulations, and that th...had carried out doping tests of 19 players in September last year, in which akhtar and Asif were found positive of taking Norandrosterone, a metabolite of nan...

Pakistan Medical Association To Fight For Shoaib, Asif

... The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) plans to move court against the bans handed to dope-tainted fast bowlers Shoaib akhtar and Mohammed Asif.// "The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has pleased the outside world and the International Cricket Council by banning Shoaib and...

Polio afflicts a girl despite vaccination

... them doses. I did but she still got polio. It's all a farce. The Government spends crores on it, but its of no use,” Jannat's Father, Muhammad Jameel akhtar says. Four new cases of polio have been reported in the last two weeks, however, officials say that such cases are very rare. “One case is a resi...

Akhtar in Biological News

X chromosome exposed

...mplex achieves dosage compensation in flies, but it remains unclear how exactly it accomplishes its function. Now researchers from the lab of Asifa akhtar at EMBL and the groups of Nick Luscombe and Paul Bertone at EMBL-EBI have uncovered how one component of the MSL complex, an enzyme called MOF, ensure...

Akhtar in Biological Technology

CTT - Bridging the states entrepreneurial gap

... came to CTTs offices in Madison, President Masood akhtar and his associates were impressed enough with the ...s important to protect your intellectual property, akhtar said. If you dont, you are looking for trouble dow...ies where it can play a role in commercialization, akhtar said. CTT has a loan program of $2 million, lendin...

Will tech transfer save Wisconsin's economy?

...er treatment, metal casting, and chemicals and plastics, among others. akhtar "It is so interesting that regardless of which company we talk to, they ar...d development and technologies that will save energy," CTT President Masood akhtar said. "The challenge is that it takes a lot of time to get permits from the...

Center for Technology Transfer embraces "Cleantech"

...describe technologies that are energy efficient, economically viable, and environmentally friendly. "It feels like a better fit for our organization," akhtar stated. CleanTech Partners scouts venture fairs, universities, tech organizations, and industry to find new energy-saving technologies that are wo...